Ahmedabad Police arrest four for blackmailing 50-yeq\ar-old man

Ahmedabad: Four persons including three women have been arrested for blackmailing a 50-year-old man from Gujrat’s Ahmedabad.

According to the police the four arrested allegedly drugged the complainant and clicked photographs in compromising condition. The four were allegedly blackmailing the man by threatening to circulate the photographs.

The victim a resident of Rajkot had lodged a complaint with the Nana Mava Police station.

The arrested for have been identified as Mona Vaghela,37, Daisy Makwan, Shila Christian and Michael Joseph. All the arrested are residents of Maninagar.

Police said, the victims wife had died 6months back. He had registered himself with a marriage portal. One of the arrested Shila, who identified herself as matchmaker, called him and invited him to Ahemadabad.

The victim in the FIR informed the police that Shila introduced the victim with Manjula, but things did not work out well. A few days later Manjula started calling him and threatened him of committing suicide if he did not meet her.

According to the victim Manjula forced him to travel to Mt Abu where she had booked room for the duo. The victim claims that he was offered a drink after which he felt unconscious.

On returning to Ahmedabad, the victim started getting a call youth demanding Rs 25 lakhs and threatened to make photographs of his in compromising condition.